The Associated Press, Christian Science Monitor and Gizmodo reported the University of Maine is unveiling a $13.8 million expansion of its Advanced Structures and Composites Center that will simulate a stormy ocean to help innovators determine if their creations can withstand the sea. Habib Dagher, executive director of UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center, said […]
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The Bangor Daily News spoke with Erik Blomberg, an assistant professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology at the University of Maine, about his recent bat monitoring efforts and research. Through his studies, Blomberg wants to bring the massive declines in bat populations to the public’s attention, educate residents about the extensive […]
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The Research Reinvestment Fund (RRF) Advisory Board has announced the winners of the 2015 UMS RRF Seed Grant Program. The program aims to provide seed funding for pilot research and development projects that will enable University of Maine System faculty to strengthen research, commercialization and economic development activities that support businesses and industries critical to […]
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The Bangor Daily News reported a short video on lobsters and climate change that was created by O’Chang Comics in partnership with the Maine Sea Grant Program at the University of Maine is up for a national award. The video, which was based on the UMaine report “Maine’s Climate Future: 2015 Update,” explains how rising […]
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Gayle Zydlewski, a marine sciences professor at the University of Maine, spoke with the Maine Public Broadcasting Network and Associated Press about research on the endangered shortnose sturgeon. UMaine researchers confirmed that, for the first time in more than a century, shortnose sturgeon have returned to the historic habitat upriver of the Veazie Dam, according […]
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WABI (Channel 5) spoke with Bruce Segee, the Henry R. and Grace V. Butler Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maine; Craig Mason, a UMaine professor of education; and Ami Gaspar, an advanced computing outreach specialist with IT, about a three-year, $2 million research project that will use a popular video […]
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A 2011 waste characterization study by the University of Maine School of Economics was cited in the Bangor Daily News article, “Will York’s plastic bag ban actually help the environment?” The study found that plastic bags were the sixth most common plastic thrown away in Maine, accounting for about 0.82 percent of landfill waste by […]
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Endangered shortnose sturgeon have rediscovered habitat in the Penobscot River that had been inaccessible to the species for more than 100 years prior to the removal of the Veazie Dam in 2013. University of Maine researchers confirmed evidence that three female shortnose sturgeon were in the area between Veazie and Orono in mid-October. Researchers had […]
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Andrew Galimberti, an entomology graduate student at the University of Maine, was part of a research team that discovered that bigger isn’t necessarily better for a fish during an extinction event. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and UMaine found that for at least 40 million years following the last massive extinction, small, fast-reproducing fish […]
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University of Maine graduate student Andrew Galimberti is mentioned in several publications regarding his research on a mass extinction 359 million years ago. Prior to the extinction, the sea was filled with “creatures the size of school buses,” but for at least 40 million years after the massive die-off, the marine world was dominated by […]
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